Born in Sri Lanka, Manjula Carter grew up in England and came to the United States to pursue a master's degree in crop science at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. At age 10, she became fascinated with growing plants and crops, and the science behind botany. Visiting her uncle, a soil scientist in her native Sri Lanka who ran a rice research station, she discovered she wanted to work in agronomy.
WOOSTER -- William Toshi Yamazaki of Wooster died of lung cancer March 5, 2010, in his home, in the company of his family and Wayne County Hospice services. He was born May 10, 1917 in San Francisco, the third son of Sho and Hagiko Komatsuzaki Yamazaki. He attended Lowell High School in San Francisco (1934), the University of California, Berkeley (B.S., 1939 and M.S., 1941) and The Ohio State University (PhD. 1950). He worked briefly as a wine chemist in Berkeley but was evacuated from the West Coast with other Japanese/American citizens following the outbreak of World War II to an internment camp in Topaz, Utah. Through the efforts of the War Relocation Authority, he found a position as technologist with the USDA Soft Wheat Quality Laboratory in Wooster in 1944. He conducted research t...
Agronomy Day set for Aug. 16 at UIUC URBANA - Agronomy Day 2007 will be Aug. 16 at the Crop Sciences Research and Education Center at the University of Illinois.
... at Garst Seed Company's seed breeding research facility in Brookston, Indiana, where she was on t... has a Bachelor of Science degree in agronomy and had served as the Research Assistant at the Br...
WOOSTER -- John G. Streeter, of Wooster, died Tuesday, June 26, 2007, at Akron General Medical Center. He was born in Ellwood City, Pa., the son of John R. and Janet Streeter. He was a graduate of Ellwood City High School and Penn State University, receiving a bachelor of science degree in agronomy. John completed his master's in agronomy at Penn State and received his doctorate in botany and plant physiology from Cornell University. He moved to Wooster and began his career in the agronomy department at Ohio State University and the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center in 1969.
Editor, the Tribune: A response is in order to Alan Guebert's column about nitrogen fertilization. It is appropriate that the story is an opinion piece.The characterization of nitrogen as "burning" the soil and the farmers applying nitrogen as "unguided missiles" would not find a home in any legitimate scientific article.The Illinois fertilizer industry bases its recommendation for nitrogen application on decades of research performed by the University of Illinois and published in The Illinois Agronomy Handbook.This data is collected from real Illinois farms - not from the Morrow Plots that are no longer a major source of agricultural production research. The implication that farmers are over-applying nitrogen is not borne out by data from other sources.The USDA said between 1980 to 200...
WOOSTER -- John G. Streeter, of Wooster, died Tuesday, June 26, 2007, at Akron General Medical Center. He was born in Ellwood City, Pa., the son of John R. and Janet Streeter. He was a graduate of Ellwood City High School and Penn State University, receiving a bachelor of science degree in agronomy. John completed his master's in agronomy at Penn State and received his doctorate in botany and plant physiology from Cornell University. He moved to Wooster and began his career in the agronomy department at Ohio State University and the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center in 1969.
Agriculture A researcher at the federal Department of Agriculture's research facility in Prosser has been honored as a Fellow of the American Society of Agronomy. Phil Miklas, a research geneticist, received the prestigious award at the society's annual meeting earlier this month in Salt Lake City. Among his many accomplishments, Miklas has authored or co-authored 70 journal articles, 20 technical papers, two book chapters and numerous abstracts.
New Mobile Applications Let Researchers Study in the Field . SAN CARLOS, Calif. -- Taking ..., today announced the American Society of Agronomy (ASA) launched Science Pubs, developed for iPad, i...
Agriculture A researcher at the federal Department of Agriculture's research facility in Prosser has been honored as a Fellow of the American Society of Agronomy. Phil Miklas, a research geneticist, received the prestigious award at the society's annual meeting earlier this month in Salt Lake City. Among his many accomplishments, Miklas has authored or co-authored 70 journal articles, 20 technical papers, two book chapters and numerous abstracts.
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